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    Education & Childcare

    Lil Steps Funzone

    Education & Childcare

    The short version · within 3 weeks

    SoudCoh helped Lil Steps Funzone tap into a massive local audience of parents and got them chatting, booking and buzzing about the venue.

    The result.

    within 3 weeks

    High

    Engagement Rate Across Reels and Stories

    within 3 weeks

    109+

    Direct Messaging Conversations Started

    within 3 weeks

    13,273

    Total Impressions Generated

    within 3 weeks

    Lower CPM

    With Optimised Creative Delivery

    within 3 weeks

    Industry
    Education & Childcare
    Discipline
    Education & Childcare
    Services
    Education & Childcare · Facebook Ads · Instagram Ads · Lead Generation
    Measured over
    within 3 weeks

    Every figure above was read out of this client's live account and is reproduced exactly as the study publishes it. It is a record of what happened on one account, in one market, at one budget — not a forecast for yours.

    What would this look like on your account?

    Different market, different budget, different numbers. The first call is where we work out whether the same approach fits yours at all.

    Lil Steps Funzone

    The case study

    109+ Direct Messaging Conversations Started
    13,273 Total Impressions Generated
    High Engagement Rate Across Reels and Stories
    Lower CPM With Optimised Creative Delivery

    About Lil Steps Funzone

    Lil Steps Funzone is a vibrant indoor play centre in Selden, NY, offering slides, sensory zones, and endless fun for young children. When they partnered with SoudCoh, the goal was to boost bookings and bring more families through the doors. Our mission was to turn local parents from casual scrollers into loyal customers ready to chat, book, and play through a high-performing Facebook Ads campaign.

    The Challenge

    Lil Steps Funzone had everything families could dream of, except strong online engagement. Their digital presence did not reflect the buzz and colour of their play centre.

    Static Content Was Not Converting

    Old-school image posts felt more like flyers than fun. They failed to capture the energy and excitement of the play centre, resulting in low engagement and minimal clicks from parents browsing their feeds.

    No Direct Engagement Route for Parents

    Parents were not sure how to book or learn more. Without a clear chat option or compelling call to action, interest fizzled fast and potential bookings were lost.

    One-Size-Fits-All Messaging

    A single ad message could not speak to both toddler mums looking for weekday activities and birthday-planning dads searching for party venues. The campaign needed tailored messaging for different parent segments.

    Our Strategic Approach

    Facebook Ads Strategy for Indoor Play Centres

    We built a campaign that was part storytelling, part science. Every creative, caption, and click was optimised for engagement and designed to drive real conversations with local parents.

    Vibrant Creatives That Stole the Show

    Dynamic carousels, playful videos, and eye-popping colour gave parents a taste of the fun their kids could have. The visuals invited curiosity and instantly stood out on crowded feeds, driving significantly higher engagement than previous campaigns.

    Chat-First Messaging Strategy

    Instead of links or forms, every ad encouraged instant conversation. With "Chat with us" as the hero CTA, parents could ask questions and get answers in real time through Messenger, removing friction from the booking journey.

    Lil Steps Funzone Facebook ad primary text headline and send message call to action setup

    Smart Copy That Spoke to Parents

    We kept the language clear, warm, and relatable. Each ad focused on safety, fun, and learning, the magic trio every parent looks for when choosing activities for their children.

    Creative Testing Done Right

    We tested videos, Reels, and Stories across Meta placements, scaling up what worked best. Real-time optimisation kept engagement climbing with every tweak and rotation.

    Target Audience

    The campaign targeted parents of young children aged 2 to 10 living in and around Selden, NY. These parents were actively looking for fun, safe, and stimulating places for their kids to play, learn, and socialise. Our audience included mums and dads planning weekend activities, birthday parties, or playdates, families who value convenience, cleanliness, and creativity.

    Services Delivered

    Facebook Ads strategy and management
    Copywriting and ad optimisation
    Creative design and video production
    Campaign testing and performance tracking
    Chatbot and Messenger automation
    Performance analysis and reporting

    Results

    within 3 weeks

    In just a few short weeks, engagement spiked, conversations surged, and bookings followed as the campaign connected with local parents across Selden and surrounding areas.

    109+ Direct Messaging Conversations Started
    13,273 Total Impressions Generated
    High Engagement Rate Across Reels and Stories
    Lower CPM With Optimised Creative Delivery

    Why This Matters

    This campaign proved that connection beats complexity. By blending playful visuals, relatable messaging, and instant engagement through chat, SoudCoh helped Lil Steps Funzone transform social ads into real bookings. Parents felt heard, the brand felt alive, and the results proved that when storytelling meets strategy, real results follow, one chat at a time.

    Tags

    • Education & Childcare
    • Facebook Ads
    • Instagram Ads
    • Lead Generation

    That is one account. Yours is a different one.

    We read your ads, your search presence and your tracking the same way this one was read, and tell you what we would change first.

    What every number on this page actually means.

    Marketing words get used loosely, and a loose word can make a small result look like a big one. Here is exactly what we mean by each of them.

    Conversion
    One real action by one real person: a phone call that lasted long enough to be a conversation, a submitted enquiry form, a booking, or a purchase. Not a page view and not a form that merely loaded.
    Cost per job · cost per lead
    The advertising money spent, divided by the number of those actions. It is the only figure that tells you whether the advertising is worth doing, which is why we publish it next to the count.
    Conversion rate
    The share of people who clicked the ad and then did the thing. A high click count with a low conversion rate usually means the ad and the page are promising different things.
    Ad spend
    Money that went to the advertising platform, not to us. Our management fee is separate and is never included in a cost-per-job figure, because mixing them would flatter the number.
    The measurement window
    The dates the figure covers, named every time. Where a study covers a launch, the clock starts the day campaigns went live — not the day the graph started looking good.
    A starting point
    Where a study knows what a figure was before the work began, that number is printed next to the one it became. Where the account had no history to compare against, the result is printed on its own rather than measured from a number nobody recorded.
    Qualified lead
    An enquiry that matched the service and the service area, so it was worth someone picking up the phone for. Where a study says qualified, somebody checked.
    An anonymised client
    Government, council and cultural-institution engagements are published as sector and jurisdiction only. The work and the measured outcome are described in full; the organisation is not named.

    One more, because it matters most: nothing on this page is a guarantee. It is a record of what happened on one account, in one market, at one budget.

    SoudCoh Compound™

    This page exists because of two of the six stages.

    Compound is how our team works on any account — six stages every change passes through. Two of them are why there is anything honest to publish.

    • Meter

      If it can't be measured, it doesn't get bought.

      Before a dollar moves, every action worth money to the business is tracked as itself — calls, forms, bookings, purchases — with values attached. Without that stage there is no honest number to publish afterwards.

    • Ledger

      Every change we make becomes a record you can open.

      Every change lands in a dated record as it happens — what was added, what was stopped, what was rewritten and what it cost. Writing this page afterwards was reading a file, not reconstructing a memory.

    If you want one of these

    What actually happens after the first call.

    No mystery and no lock-in before you have seen anything. This is the sequence every account on this site went through.

    1. The call

      Thirty to forty-five minutes, free

      What you sell, who buys it, and what one customer is worth to you. No deck. You leave with a real number for your situation rather than a range.

    2. Week 0

      The audit

      We open your account — or your competitors' ground, if you do not have one yet — and write down every leak we can find. That list is yours whether or not you work with us.

    3. Week 1

      The build

      Everything the account needs before it can spend a dollar: what it will bid on, what it must never pay for, the ad copy, the assets, the landing pages and the tracking. A second person checks all of it before anything is live.

    4. Day one

      You press go

      Campaigns are created paused, every time, so you can read the whole build first. You activate when you are ready, not when we are.

    5. Days 1–14

      The clean

      The busiest fortnight your account will ever have. Search terms read daily, waste negated, early winners promoted, ad copy iterated against what is actually being served.

    6. From there

      Rhythm

      Weekly optimisation, reporting on a fixed cadence whether the news is good or bad, and a proper conversation each quarter about where the next block of budget should go.

    Before you ask us anything

    Here is what everybody asks first.

    FAQ

    The questions this raises.

    Whether the figures are real, how they were measured and over what length of window, what it costs, and whether any of it would hold for your business.

    The first call is free and there is no deck.

    Book a call
    Are the figures in this case study real?

    Yes. Every number on this page was read out of the client's own advertising account and is printed here exactly as the study publishes it, beside the period it covers. The dashboard and ad images are screen-grabs of that account rather than recreations. If one of these figures matters to your decision, ask about it on the first call and we will walk you through where it came from.

    How were these numbers measured, and over what window?

    The headline figure covers within 3 weeks, and every other figure on the page is printed beside the period it belongs to. We publish the LENGTH of a measurement window and the year, and withhold the exact dates — when a client advertised, and how their trading calendar looks, is their commercial information rather than ours. A conversion means one real action by one real person: a phone call that lasted long enough to be a conversation, a submitted enquiry form, a booking, or a purchase. Not a page view, and not a form that merely loaded.

    Would this work for my business?

    We cannot promise you the same numbers, and nobody honestly can. What this page tells you is what was achievable in that market, at that budget, for that service. Your competition, your service area, your margins and what one customer is worth to you all move the answer. On the first call we build the picture from your figures rather than someone else's, and if the honest answer is that this channel is wrong for you right now, we will say so.

    Why does this study show a result but not a starting point?

    Because in most of these engagements there was nothing reliable to start from. A brand-new advertising account has no history, and a business that was tracking enquiries on paper or in a spreadsheet has no comparable figure either. Where a real before-number exists we print it next to the after-number, so you can see the movement rather than take our word for it. Where it does not, we print the result on its own. Back-solving a starting point from a percentage would make the page look better and mean less.

    Would my business get the same result?

    We cannot tell you that, and nobody honestly can. What this page tells you is what was achievable in that market, at that budget, with that service. Your competition, your service area, your margins and what a customer is worth to you all move the answer. On the first call we build the picture from your numbers rather than from someone else's, and if the honest answer is that this channel is wrong for you right now, we will say so.

    How much would this cost to run?

    Two separate numbers. Your ad spend goes to the platform, and what it needs to be depends on how competitive your market is and how many jobs you want — the smallest companies we work with invest a minimum of A$3,000 a month, and our largest clients run multiple eight figures a month across paid channels. Our management fee is separate and scales with the work. The first call is free and you leave it with a real figure for your situation.

    How quickly could we start seeing enquiries?

    It depends on the channel. Paid search meets demand that already exists, so calls and forms can arrive within hours of launch, and the first two to four weeks are an optimisation period where waste is cut daily. Most accounts settle into their best rhythm around 60 to 90 days. SEO, content and brand work run on a much longer clock — months rather than weeks — and we will tell you which one your situation actually needs.

    Am I locked into a long contract?

    No long-term lock-in. We would rather keep the work because it is producing than because a contract says you have to stay. What we do ask for is enough runway to be fair to the account — a campaign judged on its first ten days is being judged during the part where we are still cutting waste out of it. Terms are put in front of you in plain English before anything is signed.

    More accounts, same discipline.

    Studies from the same kind of work, so you can see how the pattern holds across different businesses.

    Everything above was delivered by one of a handful of things we do. These are the ones this account leant on, written up in full rather than summarised.

    The briefing behind the work.

    The case study records what happened. These two explain the channel, measurement or operating decision that made the result interpretable in the first place.

    Creative, offer and follow-up choices for visual service categories, without pretending every lead is a job. That case is argued in What quick-win paid social for trades actually means.

    Why acquisition quality cannot be judged from the platform before the downstream fields are clean. The other half of it is set out in The CRM hygiene behind a social lead form.

    The work behind this one is written up in full under reaching parents where they already scroll, and the ninety-day plan that produced results like these sets out the sequence in order.

    Want results like this?

    Thirty minutes on your numbers rather than somebody else's, and a written list of what we would change first. Yours to keep either way.

    No pitch deck. No upsell. A real conversation and a written list of leaks.